MIDDLEDITCH, William George


No.5824946, Private, William MIDDLEDITCH
Aged 27


1st Battalion, Suffolk Regiment
Killed in Action on 31st May 1940


William George Middleditch was born 1913 (1st qtr 1913 Bury St.Edmunds 4a:1784) son of William and Sybil Marion MIDDLEDITCH (née GOSTLING)

In 1911 census his father was still single, living alone at Long Yard, Stanningfield, a farm labourer, and married Sybil Gostling in 1912.
In the 1939 register his parents and 3 others were at Eastern Cottage, Bradfield Combust


William was killed 3 days after the surrender of the Belgians and would have been on his way to the beaches along the coast at Dunkirk.



photo CWGC

William is buried in Oostduinkerke Communal Cemetery, Belgium A:5

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